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Definition

something that creates growth or excitement, or something that causes an action

in various senses, including:

economic stimulus — something that makes the economy grow
biological or psychological stimulus — something that makes the body react in a particular way such as when more light make the eye pupil shrink, or when lack of sleep causes stress

We're hoping the stimulus package will increase the number and quality of available jobs.

stimulus = something that creates growth (in this case economic growth)

We are measuring reaction to deep-brain electronic stimulus.

stimulus = something that causes a reaction

The Fed is concerned that further stimulus will lead to inflation.

stimulus = something that creates growth (in this case economic growth)

Under the stimulus of his exhilarating life, I would have been his wife as well as the mother of his children.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
"Money isn't the only stimulus that brings out the best that's in a man, even in America."
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
There were too many stimuli, in this water, under this sky, the light a latticework shifting over her bright flesh.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
'You anticipate, sir,' said Mr. Chillip, his eyelids getting quite red with the unwonted stimulus in which he was indulging.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
He seemed to have lost the power of intellectual effort, now that the stimulus of pain had been removed.
George Orwell -- 1984
The lack of any mental stimuli.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
You got that 'stimulus' out of one of these fool stories about wives that don't know when they're well off.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
She'll need to be taught to protect herself and control her powers before the stimuli from the physical world drive her mad.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
The situation had nothing to do with race—it was a learned reaction to the stimulus of a physical challenge.
Sampon Davis, et. al. -- We Beat the Street
It was evident, from Mr. Trotter's flushed countenance and defective intonation, that he, too, had had recourse to vinous stimulus.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
Even he was sensible of the decorous atmosphere and even he began to respond to the religious stimulus.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
A sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied in a different modality.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
I felt drugged, disengaged, thoroughly insulated from external stimuli.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
When they find either thing, they stop to enjoy the visual stimuli.
Holly Goldberg Sloan -- Counting by 7s
She had spent about half of her time at St. Stefan's strapped to the bed in the "stimulus-free" room.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
The infant's brain develops in response to stimuli.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise

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